How to Make Arroz Con Gandules Quickly.
Making arroz con gandules the traditional way takes a long time and a lot of cooking. If you're cooking with limited time to spare, you can take a recipe that is very long and make it shorter with just as much taste and heart and soul in your food!Ingredients.
8 cups of water.
4 cups of goya rice.
2 1/2 -3 tablespoons of oil.
Salt (at your discretion) I season to taste.
2 packets of Goya Sazon con culantro y achiote.
1 1/2 packets of Goya Ham flavored concentrate.
2 table spoons of Goya Adobo all purpose seasoning (red cap) with pepper.
1 teaspoon of garlic powder (optional).
1/2 teaspoon of cumin.
Steps.
1. Gather all the ingredients you will need.
2. Bring all to a boil
3. 2 cans of Gandules (drain water) add into boiling seasoned water
4. Olives (pitted) not necessary but they taste terrific
5. Make sure you wash your rice
6. Add washed rice to boiling pot of seasoned water, and beans
7. Keep on high flame until water is evaporated
8. Rice may still be wet inside however once you hear sizzling and the rice is dry on the top turn the flame to low.
9. Turn the rice in the pot (meaning move dry rice to bottom and wet rice to top) build kind of like a pyramid of rice in the center of your pot
10. Once you have turned rice get a large piece of foil and cover rice on low flame and cook till rice is soft
11. Serve the rice.
12. Finished.
Tips.
If you want to make smaller portions, add 4 cups of water and 2 cups of rice.
